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Lette/'s Potent .No.rlloitl, dated fune 1, 1857.

WOOL-PACKING TABLE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

lle it known that l, WILLIAM S. l'lAnnIs, oi' the town et' Eckt'ord, in the county of Calhoun, and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and usci-.il improvements in Machines for Packing Vool Fleeees; and I do hereby declare that the following is a Vt'ull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ot' the same, reference being had to tht` annexed drawings, makinga part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspectivi` view.

Figure 2 is a central cross-section .in line 1'.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

My improved wool-packer consistsfpartly (like most others) of a table, the top of which is composed of tour flaps hinged to a square central section, the legs, bottom, and rails of such table frame being indicated respectively hy the letters A B C. The interior ofthe framing is divided by partitions D into as many compartments as may be necessary to contain all the halls of twine requisite for baling a tleece, and arranged in such manner that the strings o, which pass through holes a, in the side of the frame in proper positions, will not ravel as the balls are unwound. rlhe two long table iiaps It", and the two short oncsFZ, are all hinged to a central square, indicated at G, which is nailed fast to thelpartitions D, the whole arranged in such manner that when the iiaps are turned up, as in tig. 2, they will enclose a rectangular space about equal to the required size of the packed bundle. lhe short flaps are held in vertical position by spring-stops S, and the long flaps to which said stops are i'astened are held by a pair of clamps, l1 H, iirmly connected together by bracing, and either hinged to the frame bottom B or pivoted by a through red to the table frame. The clamps operate simultaneously, andare made to turn back-out of the way of the eroi-hanging ilaps by being sunk in recesses or notches out in one of the railsU. A packing-head, M, tits loosely into the press-box, formed by the turned-up flaps, and is framed to the end ef a vertical wooden bar, J, which bar is guided and works freelyin corresponding apertures, through the centro of the section G and table-frame bottom l), and is `jointed underneath to one ond of a lever, L, which has its fulerum on a Crossgirt, I, connected with the lower framing of the table. Notches are .sawn in the edges of the table 'flaps to receive the baling twines 0, which are spread across the flaps and across the upper face ofthe packing-head M, which projects its Vfullthickness above the surface of the table, said twines beingI sunk in opposite corresponding grooves in the packing-head, which holds them steadily below its surface, so that they cannot be moved out et' place when the ileece is being enclosed in the press-box. N N represent two taper-pointed pins, which may be termed abutment pins, fastened at a. right angle with the surface-plane, and near the edge ot' one of the long Flaps, corresponding holes being formed in the other, to receive said pointed ends, when the flaps are turned up. lhese pins form the abutment against which the fleece is pressed, and I so arrange them relatively with the press-'box' and twines that said twines will in one direction be tied over the said pins.

The mode of operation is as follows: The flaps and baling twines 0 being arranged in the position shown in fig. 1, the ileece is folded as usual, and placed on the packing-head. The operator then turns up the two long flaps vertically, enters the pointed ends of the abutment pins into their holes,A and secures them by partially revolving the clamps ll into the position shown by the dotted lines in tig. 2. 'lhe short flaps are then turned up until they pass the ends of the spring-stops. The operator then pushing downward with his foot en the lever L, thc ieece is pressed upwards against the abutment pins so as to protrude through the spaces on each side ot' and between the pinsrv sutliciently above the edges of the box to enable it to be tied conveniently both ways, whenv the twinesl are eut, the flaps turned back, and the pressed fleece is drawn off from the abutment pins over which it. was baled, and thc operation is completed. l

I de not claim enclosing the fleece in a box formed by hinged table ilaps, and pressing itt'or baling, through the instrumentality ot' a foot-lever, but l do not know any other wool-press but mine in whichl the fleece is pressed against transverse abutment pins whereby largo portions ot` the ileece can be protruded beyond the box and tied both ways, neither am l aware that in any such box the packing-head or piston has been arranged to project above thtl boX-llaps when laid horizontally, and furnished with transverse grooves, in which the baling twines may be sunk out of the way 'of disturbance. Stop-springs for securing the end ilaps are common, and I do not, therefore, claim them: but l have never known clan'ip-s Connected rigidly together, and `jointed as mine are, to be employed in connection therewith; therefore, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The employment of longitudinal and lateral grooves in the upper faee of the packing-head M, in combination with the notches in the table flaps to secure the baling twines o, when seid head is so arranged es to project above the surface of the turned-down flaps, substantially as set forth.

2.- I claim the abutment pins N, in connection and combination with the flaps F1 F2, for forming'a. top abutment, over which the ieece may be tietl both ways, substantially ns specified.

A 3. The use of the connected and jointed clamps H H, in combination with the spring-stops S, for securing the table Hops when acting 'es a, press-box, substantially in the mode herein described. Y

' WILLIAM S. HARRIS.

Witnesses:

GEORGE JOHNSON, JEROME B. HENSHAW. 

